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Saturday, September 2, 2017

Liban

This is coolbert:

Further from the latest DEBKAfile newsletter that combat as occurring the Qalamoun mountains continues, that border area between Lebanon and Syria as contested by a variety of adversaries."Ceasefire takes effect on Syrian-Lebanese border battles versus ISIS"

27 Aug.

"A
ceasefire went into force early Sunday in two conjoined battles
launched two weeks against ISIS - one fought by the Syrian army and
Hizballah in the Qalamoun Mounts on the Syrian-Lebanese border, and the
other by the Lebanese army against a large ISIS pocket inside its border
near the northern town of Ras Baalbek . . . While the allied army
managed to drive the Islamists out of large parts of the area they
occupied, the Lebanese army did not get very far towards breaking up the
ISIS and Nusra Front incursions.""Hizballah reports ISIS fighters exiting Lebanese border"

28 Aug.

"According to Hizballah's TV, nearly two dozen buses and 11 ambulances
Monday collected an undetermined number of ISIS fighters and their
families and drove out of the mountainous area straddling the
Syrian-Lebanese border. They headed for their stronghold of Abu Kamal
in eastern Syria'near the Iraqi border."

"Lebanon recovers remains of soldiers kidnapped by ISIS"

28 Aug.

"The Lebanese army recovered the remains of six bodies believed to be
members of a large group of soldiers and police kidnapped by ISIS and
the Nusra Front three years ago, when they overran the Lebanese border
town of Arsal. A ceasefire went into force Sunday on the two conjoined
fronts against ISIS on both sides of the Syrian-Lebanese border in
exchange for information about where the bodies were buried."